Humorous Quotes attributed to Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

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